Shailendra Kumar is currently doing his Ph.D. on Media Violence from Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India. E-mail ID: shailendra_lu@yahoo.co.in
It is guns, it is poverty, it is overcrowding, and it is the most crucial problem of traditional culture which is infatuated with violence. Media is glamorizing it and is teaching it to our youth and children. Today media is playing a very important role in the production of youth violence and is thus, gaining the position of a major contributor. This research paper looks media as a prominent source of violence and discusses on the nature of relationship between media and violence.
